Friday Memes: Play Dead by David Rosenfelt

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Beginning:

"Andy, you're not going to believe this."

This is the type of sentence that, when said in a vacuum, doesn't reveal much. Whatever it is that I am not going to believe might be very positive or very negative, and there would be no way to know until I see it.

Unfortunately, this particular sentence is not said in a vacuum; it's said in the Passaic County Animal Shelter. Which means that "positive" is no longer one of the possibilities.

Friday 56:

"Thanks. Did you see anything on television about the case I handled recently? Where I defended the dog?"

He smiles. "I thought that was great. I'm thinking of hanging around the local shelter to get clients."

This week I am spotlighting Play Dead by David Rosenfelt. This is the sixth book in the Andy Carpenter series. It was written in 2007. I bought my copy last year to help in my goal of reading the whole series. Here is the description from Amazon:

In this imaginative legal thriller for dog lovers, an attorney tries to free an innocent man by convincing an incredulous jury to take the testimony a golden retriever seriously.

Few can rival attorney Andy Carpenter's affection for golden retrievers, especially his own beloved Tara.

After he astonishes a New Jersey courtroom by successfully appealing another retriever's death sentence, Andy discovers that this gentle dog is a key witness to a murder that took place five years earlier.

It will take all the tricks Andy's fertile mind can conceive to get to the bottom of a remarkable chain of impersonations and murder -- and hopefully save not only a dog's life but also his own in the process.